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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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Affect Appearance Assume Best Woman
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Anand Thakur
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
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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Anand Thakur
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself
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
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
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
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Bad Injury Strength Weakness
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Relative Rich Wealth

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