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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
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There are two things that bestow consequence great possession, or great debts.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
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Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
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If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
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A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.
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