Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA 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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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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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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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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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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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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