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Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
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The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
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Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
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It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.
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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
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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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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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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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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
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There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.
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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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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
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