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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Law Nature Power Wisdom Woman
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Kindness Ourselves Power
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Deep Hesitation Myself Sharp Silence Weapon Word Yourself
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Cure Endurance Heart Human King Law
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Love Reading Wisdom Yourself
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
Grief is a species of idleness.
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Born Children Grief One Liner Wasted Time
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Courage Greatness Himself Man Preserve Security Virtue
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Business Happiness Himself Man
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Retirement Sorry Talent Thinking World Yourself
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Goodness Measurement Treat True
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Happiness Nature
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Coward Defense Revenge
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Argument Myself Understand Yourself
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Father Freedom Independent Power Son Struggle
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Forgive Man Necessary Pain True Value Wisdom
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Easy Excellence One Liner
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Better Company Enough Food Man Prison Room
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Bright Cleaning Sorrow Soul
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Happiness heavy Life Money Mortal Time
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Health Moral Preserve Religious Social Virtue
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence

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