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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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A wise man may be duped as well as a fool but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.
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It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
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Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
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Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!
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The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
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It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high but we must remember that men are not angels.
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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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A hug is worth a thousand words.
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Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.
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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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