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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Caleb Colton

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
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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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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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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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
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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