Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONOur minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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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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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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