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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.

Charles Caleb Colton

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Avoid Better Dangerous Hurricane Shipwreck Storm Wait
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Anticipate Bliss Drink Enchant Love
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Beneath Herself Ignorance Lying Pride Shame
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Appreciate Beautiful Intimate Substance True
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
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
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
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
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
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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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Attack Defense Enemy Friendship Goodness Violence
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Build Food Home Honor Monument Ourselves Pull Reward
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret

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