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• Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

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• Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

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• 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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• Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart.

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• Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

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• Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

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• There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

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• Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

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• It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

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• Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

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• None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

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• Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

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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 are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

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• The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.

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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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• Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

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• The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

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• The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

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• If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

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• We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.

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Charles Caleb Colton (187)

Birth:	1780
Death:	1832
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Charles Caleb Colton was an English writer. He was educated at Eton and King's College, graduating with a B.A. in 1801 and an M.A. Colton's books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day. Toward the end of 1820, Colton published Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words, addressed to those who think., in a small cheap edition.

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