No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, But the harvest is reaped in age by pain.Charles Caleb Colton
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Time is the most indefinable yet paradoxical of things the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires.
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