For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBooks, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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