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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Effect Experience Guide Imagination
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Faith Fraud Greedy Imposter Prudent Swallow
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Female Fortune Herself Impatience Lover Master Opportunity Submit
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Difference Health Man Money Poor Rich
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Anand Thakur
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
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Hurry Mark Mindset Oneself Strong Weakness
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Anand Thakur
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Compose Goodness Observation Writing
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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Anand Thakur
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Man Oneself Praise Raise Support

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