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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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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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