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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Accomplishment Easy Hide Hypocrisy Learning Pretend
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Adversity Blessing Greatness Time
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Energy Enough Place Plant Virtue
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
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
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
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
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Enough Satisfaction True
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Dangerous Deal Fools
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Cruelty Generosity Greatness Humility Lover
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Bad Better Goodness Himself Stand Vice Virtue Worst
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun

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