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Charles Caleb Colton has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people…
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
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In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with…
— Mao Zedong
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There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for…
— Minor White
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There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which…
— Lord Acton
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After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose…
— Walter Rodney
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If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a…
— James Madison
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All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that…
— William Gibson
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
— Anne Tyler
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