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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

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Himself Human Listening Nature World
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Excellence Himself Privacy Station Talk
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Enough Satisfaction True
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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Alone Book Himself Man Study
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Adversity Himself Known
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness

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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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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