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Letter "C" » Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
«It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
«Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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fetter
«It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility»
«The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing»
«Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave»
«Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
«Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself that he is one of the number»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
«Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Selfishness
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bequeath, bequeathed, charities, posthumous
«Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.»
«Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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in proportion to
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