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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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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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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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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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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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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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