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The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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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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My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
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A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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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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When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things first, that such persons do not understand themselves and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
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Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.
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