Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONRevenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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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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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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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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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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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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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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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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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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