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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Literature Sentence Speech Talk
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Afraid Coward Death Prevent Suicide Time
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Dangerous Deal Fools
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
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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Goodness Greatness Life Man
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
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Complete Integrity Oneself
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
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
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Adversity Himself Known

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

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