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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

Charles Caleb Colton

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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
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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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Difficult Errors Favor Old Prejudice Run Task
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Carry Compare Talk Weight
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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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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Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Defect Enemy Learning Ourselves Side Success Surround World
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
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Conquer Grace Grant Refusal Safety Yourself

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