A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThat is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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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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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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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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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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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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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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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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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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