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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

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Excellence Himself Privacy Station Talk
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Discharge Head Influence Lose
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Born Eyes Man Oneself Proverb
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Dance Grand Happiness Life Mistress Route
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
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
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Case Empty Follow Misfortune Pain Shadow Substance
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Best Light Material Moral
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Body Cure Discover Human Mindset Weakness
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Each Other Family Ignorance Nation Pride
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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Miracle Person Reason Recover
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
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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Book Friendship Instruction Return True
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Anand Thakur
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Brave Courage Dangerous Man Opinion
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
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
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Allow Error Flirt Freedom Ourselves Perfection
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Different Face Happiness Mindset Road

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