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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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The seat of perfect contentment is in the head for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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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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The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.
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Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
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A hug is worth a thousand words.
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