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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done and when they disapprove you, what good.

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.
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That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.
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Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.
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There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
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The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
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Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
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The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
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Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
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Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.
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The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
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It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
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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 since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.
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