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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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Admit Justice Moments Myself Reading
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Enjoyment Grace Greatness Himself Intimacy Rank
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Kill Ourselves Passion Strong Submission
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Attack Defense Enemy Friendship Goodness Violence
The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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Miracle Person Reason Recover
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
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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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Anand Thakur
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Attack Body Mindset Privilege Wealth
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Difference Effect Life Philosophy Religion
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Deep Enjoyment Health Jealous Money
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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Goal Hollow Motive Place Show True
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Away Man Production Throw Time
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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Blood Ourselves Remedy Revenge
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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Goodness Greatness Life Man

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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