Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONImmitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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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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