Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSome persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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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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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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