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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Imagination Known Pain Pleasure Power
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Beneath Herself Ignorance Lying Pride Shame
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
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Each Other Family Ignorance Nation Pride
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
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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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Discharge Head Influence Lose
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Logic Science Togetherness Tools Work
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Away Man Production Throw Time
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Enjoyment Grace Greatness Himself Intimacy Rank
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Effect Experience Guide Imagination
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Bitter Dare Enemy Live Rare
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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Bad Better Goodness Himself Stand Vice Virtue Worst
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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Affect Appearance Assume Best Woman
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
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Dance Grand Happiness Life Mistress Route
Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Book Life Logic Mess Midst Time
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

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