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Attempt Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,…
- Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
- The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
- We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.
- Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even…
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