It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSome 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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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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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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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Books, 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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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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