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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Blank Erase Errors Ignorance Writing
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
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Adversity Blessing Greatness Time
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Answer Examination Fools Greatness Man Preparation Wisdom
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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Experience Finding Improvement Live Moral Talent Weakness
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Effort Greatness Happiness Moments Paint Thinking
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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Book Friendship Instruction Return True
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Anand Thakur
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Allow Discipline Fear Myself
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Faith Fraud Greedy Imposter Prudent Swallow

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

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