True friendship is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
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| Birth: | 1780 |
| Death: | 1832 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Writer |
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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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