There are male as well as female gossips.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONStrong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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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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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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