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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Case Empty Follow Misfortune Pain Shadow Substance
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Enjoyment Grace Greatness Himself Intimacy Rank
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Best Light Material Moral
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Flattery Form High Imitation
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Empty Himself Man Profound Reserve Suspect
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Anand Thakur
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Anand Thakur
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun

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