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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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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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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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