That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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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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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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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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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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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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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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