English - Writer | 1780 - 1832
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Mystery is not profoundness.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
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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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