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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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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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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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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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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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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.
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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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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