An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMen are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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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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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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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.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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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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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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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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