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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Charles Caleb Colton

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Earn Enjoyment Liberty People Raise
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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Book Friendship Instruction Return True
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Integrity Man Ourselves Price Purchase Virtue
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Anand Thakur
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Different Face Happiness Mindset Road
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Enjoyment Grace Greatness Himself Intimacy Rank

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