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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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If you want enemies, excel others if you want friends, let others excel you.
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When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
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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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Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
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Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.
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Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined if the latter, gross and sensual.
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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.
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