Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMost females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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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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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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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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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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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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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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