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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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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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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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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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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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