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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.
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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Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
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