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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
A 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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Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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Curiosity Death Language Live Talk
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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Female Improvement Intellectual Male Pledge
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Certain Knowledge Term

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