Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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