Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThat is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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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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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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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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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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