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A 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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Himself Human Listening Nature World
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Bad Injury Strength Weakness
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Experience Finding Improvement Live Moral Talent Weakness
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Brave Courage Dangerous Man Opinion
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Bright Calm Confusion Darkness Greatness Storm Time
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Anand Thakur
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Carry Compare Talk Weight
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bitter Dare Enemy Live Rare
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People

A 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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A 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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