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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Logic Science Togetherness Tools Work
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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Curiosity Death Language Live Talk
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
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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Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Enough Satisfaction True
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Inspirational Run Woman Yourself
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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Bad Injury Strength Weakness
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave

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