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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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The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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God is on the side of virtue for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .
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