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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Brave Courage Dangerous Man Opinion
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Man Oneself Praise Raise Support
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
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
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Adversity Himself Known
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
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
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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Enemy Hold Obligation Power
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Deserve Fear Gratitude Kind Pay Powerful Praise

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