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It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
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Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
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