Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMost plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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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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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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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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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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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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