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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

«He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Knowledge | Keywords: lecture
«If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.»
«Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.»
«There are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.»
«Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: gravity, reply
«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.»
«Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.»
«The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.»
«We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.»
«None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.»