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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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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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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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