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It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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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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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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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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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
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Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.
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