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Persons Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very…
- The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which…
- Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
- 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…
- We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
- Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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