It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMen’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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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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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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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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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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