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Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
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Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
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It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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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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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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