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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charles Caleb Colton

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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Anand Thakur
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Anand Thakur
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Anand Thakur
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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Art Fools Hear Moments Publish Reading Sink Talk Value
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Destruction Earth Existence Seed Society
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Deserve Fear Gratitude Kind Pay Powerful Praise
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Greatness Life Lying Man Success
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
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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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Deep Enjoyment Health Jealous Money
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Cheerful Life Old Sun Winter
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
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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Bad Injury Strength Weakness
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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Complete Integrity Oneself
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Hurry Mark Mindset Oneself Strong Weakness
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Anticipate Bliss Drink Enchant Love
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere

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