As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Tomorrow It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fools calendar.Charles Caleb Colton
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body we are half dead before we understand our disorder, And half cured when we do.
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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 study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Revenge - A debt in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
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