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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Charles Caleb Colton

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Road Rough Saint
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Dance Grand Happiness Life Mistress Route
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Awkward Beginning Embarrassment Subject Theme Writing
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Fake Herself Nurse Rock Truth
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Man Oneself Praise Raise Support
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
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
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Conquer Grace Grant Refusal Safety Yourself
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Certain Knowledge Term
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Difficult Errors Favor Old Prejudice Run Task

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