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Common Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
- Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is…
- Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.
- It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
- When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
- With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who…
- All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of…
- Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
- Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
- Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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