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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Flattery Form High Imitation
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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Difference Health Man Money Poor Rich
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Anand Thakur
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Hurry Mark Mindset Oneself Strong Weakness
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
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Grand Misery Passion Success
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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Goal Hollow Motive Place Show True
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Compose Goodness Observation Writing
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Affect Determination Success Virtue
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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Customer Fight Man Reason
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Each Other Family Ignorance Nation Pride
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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Different Face Happiness Mindset Road
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value

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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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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