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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Build Food Home Honor Monument Ourselves Pull Reward
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Fake Herself Nurse Rock Truth
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Allow Discipline Fear Myself
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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Admit Justice Moments Myself Reading
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Born Eyes Man Oneself Proverb
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Anticipate Bliss Drink Enchant Love
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Anand Thakur
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Conquer Grace Grant Refusal Safety Yourself
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
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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Attention Fame Follow Funeral Grave Pay
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere

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