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The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.
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Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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The seat of perfect contentment is in the head for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!
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In science, reason is the guide in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
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Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
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