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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

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Best Light Material Moral
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Adversity Blessing Greatness Time
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Afraid Coward Death Prevent Suicide Time
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Compose Goodness Observation Writing
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Anand Thakur
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Difference Health Man Money Poor Rich
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Bad Injury Strength Weakness
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Anand Thakur
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True

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.

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