The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONConstant 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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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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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 society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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