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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Caleb Colton

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Anand Thakur
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Bad Better Goodness Himself Stand Vice Virtue Worst
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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Act Goodness Growth Point
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Care Command Influence Reading
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Anand Thakur
The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Anand Thakur
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
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
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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Anand Thakur
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Break Failure Strength Success
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom

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