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Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
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The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.
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Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.
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