None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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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.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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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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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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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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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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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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