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Large Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes,…
- It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money…
- If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large,…
- Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to…
- True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
- Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to…
- Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
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- The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us. — Julian Assange
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would… — Gamaliel Bailey
- I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. — Mikhail Bakunin
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard