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Less Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall…
- Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
- Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
- When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
- Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
- If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect…
- Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life…
- 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…
- Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from…
- 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…
- The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool…
- There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth…
- In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny…
- Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
- Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over…
- 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…
- 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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- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen