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None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.
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Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's index, or its case?
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If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
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Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Make no enemies he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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