It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWords 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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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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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.
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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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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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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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