Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONOur admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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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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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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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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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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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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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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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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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