Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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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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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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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.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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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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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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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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