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Far Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
- It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
- Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth…
- Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence…
- The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm…
- The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
- There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to…
- Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,…
- No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than…
- Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when…
- No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more…
- Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source…
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