Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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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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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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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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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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