Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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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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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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