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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Care Command Influence Reading
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Silence Word Yourself
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Discharge Head Influence Lose
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Alone Book Himself Man Study
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Difference Fools Greatness Happiness Wisdom
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Goodness Man Motive Opinion Ourselves Strong Virtue
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
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Energy Enough Place Plant Virtue
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Money Person Purpose Secret

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

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