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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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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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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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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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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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