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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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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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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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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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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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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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