The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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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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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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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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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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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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