The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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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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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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