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Mean Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- We ask advice but we mean approbation.
- Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes…
- Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling…
- None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for…
- For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the…
- 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…
- 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…
- None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
- Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams