We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHappiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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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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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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