Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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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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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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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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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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