Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONExaminations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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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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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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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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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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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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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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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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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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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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