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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing
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
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Allow Discipline Fear Myself
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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Blank Erase Errors Ignorance Writing
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Enemy Hold Obligation Power

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