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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Dangerous Deal Fools
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Blank Erase Errors Ignorance Writing
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Certain Knowledge Term
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Man Oneself Praise Raise Support
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win

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