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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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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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Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
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When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness but we ought rather to suspect our own.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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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 head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
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When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
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