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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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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Brave Courage Dangerous Man Opinion
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
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
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Kill Ourselves Passion Strong Submission
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
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
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Flattery Form High Imitation
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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