The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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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
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them, may hammer on wood forever no fire will follow.
Charles Caleb Colton
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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