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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Act Goodness Growth Point
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
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Affect Determination Success Virtue
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
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
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Adversity Himself Known
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Anand Thakur
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
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
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Anand Thakur
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Care Command Influence Reading

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