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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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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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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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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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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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