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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Avoid Better Dangerous Hurricane Shipwreck Storm Wait
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
A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Empty Himself Man Profound Reserve Suspect
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Goodness Man Motive Opinion Ourselves Strong Virtue
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Himself Human Listening Nature World
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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Current Doubt Kind Man Utility
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Awkward Beginning Embarrassment Subject Theme Writing
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Deserve Fear Gratitude Kind Pay Powerful Praise
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Admire Difficult Fine Writing
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
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.

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