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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

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Grand Misery Passion Success
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Literature Sentence Speech Talk
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Female Improvement Intellectual Male Pledge
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
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
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
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Anand Thakur
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Adult Convinience Finding Purity Truth
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Anand Thakur
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
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
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
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Adversity Himself Known
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Body Cure Discover Human Mindset Weakness
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Death Evidence Fools
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Anand Thakur
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
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
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Female Fortune Herself Impatience Lover Master Opportunity Submit
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Age Old Youth

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