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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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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Flattery Form High Imitation
Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Book Life Logic Mess Midst Time
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
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Goodness Man Motive Opinion Ourselves Strong Virtue
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich
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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Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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Books Flower Injury Observation Steal
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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Logic Science Togetherness Tools Work
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.
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Empty Himself Man Profound Reserve Suspect
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
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
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt Pass Temple Wisdom

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