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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

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
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
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Relative Rich Wealth
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
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Best Light Material Moral
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Allow Discipline Fear Myself
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Enemy Hold Obligation Power
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Adversity Blessing Greatness Time
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Anand Thakur
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Anand Thakur
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Admire Difficult Fine Writing

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