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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
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
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Adversity Himself Known
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Affect Determination Success Virtue
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
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Destroy Enjoyment Improvement Pleasure Sun Woman
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Body Cure Discover Human Mindset Weakness
That 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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Appreciate Beautiful Intimate Substance True
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Compose Goodness Observation Writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Blank Erase Errors Ignorance Writing
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Kill Ourselves Passion Strong Submission

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