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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one it is established, and it is understood.
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Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
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He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
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