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False Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
- Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
- He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He…
- There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
- False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.
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- An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often… — Russell Baker
- You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
- I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip… — Alan Ball
- I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney… — Roseanne Barr
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Ethel Barrymore
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios.… — John Belushi
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce