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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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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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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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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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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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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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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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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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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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