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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Caleb Colton

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Discharge Head Influence Lose
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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Earn Enjoyment Liberty People Raise
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Cure Goodness Immoderate Remedy Willing Worst
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Case Empty Follow Misfortune Pain Shadow Substance
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Anand Thakur
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Allow Error Flirt Freedom Ourselves Perfection
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Beginning End Magnificiant Mathematics Study
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
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
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Deep Enjoyment Health Jealous Money
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Excellence Himself Privacy Station Talk
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Difference Fools Greatness Happiness Wisdom
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
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Defect Enemy Learning Ourselves Side Success Surround World
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Female Improvement Intellectual Male Pledge
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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Better Certain Knowledge Term

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

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