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Charles Caleb Colton

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Affect Determination Success Virtue
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Enough Satisfaction True
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Awkward Beginning Embarrassment Subject Theme Writing
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Anand Thakur
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Anand Thakur
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Anand Thakur
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Anand Thakur
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Discharge Head Influence Lose
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Atheist Communication Destruction Light Mistake System Warmth Yourself Zeal
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Adversity Blessing Greatness Time
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend

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