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Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
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Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions
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