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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If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.Charles Caleb
Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the
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It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it
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Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils
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The debt which cancels all others.
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