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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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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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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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