If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThat is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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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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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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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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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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