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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Born Eyes Man Oneself Proverb
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Anand Thakur
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Anand Thakur
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
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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Complete Integrity Oneself
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Act Goodness Growth Point
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Bad Injury Strength Weakness
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Fake Herself Nurse Rock Truth
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Enjoyment Grace Greatness Himself Intimacy Rank
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Imagination Known Pain Pleasure Power
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
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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Current Doubt Kind Man Utility

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