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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

«Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude»
«All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them»
«He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t»
«Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Men
«Habit will reconcile us to everything but change»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Habit | Keywords: reconcile
«Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Silence
«I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Men, Teenage | Keywords: aiming
«No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health»
«Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books»
«There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Pride | Keywords: paradox, prevents

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