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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.
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Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
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