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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Flattery Form High Imitation
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Grand Misery Passion Success
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
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
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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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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Avoid Better Dangerous Hurricane Shipwreck Storm Wait
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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