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Doe Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
- Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions;…
- 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,…
- Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
- In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
- A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings,…
- The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
- That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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