When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWomen that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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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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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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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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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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