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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
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
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
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
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Break Failure Strength Success
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Deep Enjoyment Health Jealous Money
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
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Road Rough Saint
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True
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
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Adult Convinience Finding Purity Truth
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Anand Thakur
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

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