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His Own Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
- He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
- The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill…
- He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most…
- If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs…
- 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…
- Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to…
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- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
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