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I will have naught to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. - Aesop Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves. - Honore de Balzac There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it. - Charles Caleb Colton One cannot live without inconsistency. - Carl Gustav Jung Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course. - Sir Roger L'Estrange Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe! - Thomas Babington Macaulay Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. - Horace (Horatio) Smith (a/k/a Paul Chatfield), Tin Trumpet (vol. I, p. 273) I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy. - Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. - Daniel Webster
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