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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

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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
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 house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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Goal Hollow Motive Place Show True
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
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Affect Determination Success Virtue
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Dangerous Deal Fools
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Effect Experience Guide Imagination
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True

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