English - Writer | 1780 - 1832
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
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