What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMost females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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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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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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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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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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