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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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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 whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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