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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True
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
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Better Dangerous Wait
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bitter Dare Enemy Live Rare
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
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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Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Cruelty Generosity Greatness Humility Lover
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Conquer Grace Grant Refusal Safety Yourself
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Adversity Himself Known

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

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