Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLadies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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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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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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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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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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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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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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