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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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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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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Anand Thakur
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
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Anand Thakur
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Brave Courage Dangerous Man Opinion
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Relative Rich Wealth
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Excellence Himself Privacy Station Talk
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Fake Herself Nurse Rock Truth

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