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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Bitter Dare Enemy Live Rare
The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Grand Misery Passion Success
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Answer Examination Fools Greatness Man Preparation Wisdom
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value
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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Bad Better Goodness Himself Stand Vice Virtue Worst
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
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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Goodness Greatness Life Man
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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Attack Body Mindset Privilege Wealth
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Anand Thakur
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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Relative Rich Wealth

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