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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
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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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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.
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Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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