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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
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No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.
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The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
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By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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In science, reason is the guide in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.
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Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
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