Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTaking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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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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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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