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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!

Charles Caleb Colton

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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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 astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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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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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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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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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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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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