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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Alone Book Himself Man Study
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Atheist Communication Destruction Light Mistake System Warmth Yourself Zeal
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Himself Human Listening Nature World
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Best Light Material Moral
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Bright Calm Confusion Darkness Greatness Storm Time
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Female Fortune Herself Impatience Lover Master Opportunity Submit
He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste
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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Build Food Home Honor Monument Ourselves Pull Reward
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox

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