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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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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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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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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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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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