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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Attack Body Mindset Privilege Wealth
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Empty Himself Man Profound Reserve Suspect
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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Greatness Life Lying Man Success
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Beneath Herself Ignorance Lying Pride Shame
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich

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