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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
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Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--a power to accomplish all that we undertake for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.
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It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.
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Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
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Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
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By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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It is a common observation that any fool can get money but they are not wise that think so.
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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy many a speech to a sentence and many a folio to a primer.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.
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It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.
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Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
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Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
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Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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