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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Adversity Blessing Greatness Time
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Faith Fraud Greedy Imposter Prudent Swallow
A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Empty Himself Man Profound Reserve Suspect
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
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
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Anand Thakur
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
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
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Brave Death Road Sense Terrible

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