Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything butlive for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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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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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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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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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
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There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
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