Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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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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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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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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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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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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