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

Charles Caleb Colton

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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Faith Fraud Greedy Imposter Prudent Swallow
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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Destruction Earth Existence Seed Society
He 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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Energy Enough Place Plant Virtue
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Better Dangerous Wait
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Adult Convinience Finding Purity Truth
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Alone Book Himself Man Study
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Hurry Mark Mindset Oneself Strong Weakness
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Beneath Herself Ignorance Lying Pride Shame

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