True friendship is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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Birth: | 1780 |
Death: | 1832 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Writer |
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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