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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

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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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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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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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