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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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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast,…
— William Cowper
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REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies.…
— Rebecca Hall
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I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.
— Ann Coulter
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
— Mark Twain
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you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I…
— Charlotte Bronte
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This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Don't feel bad, Angela," Kami said. "You know guys, they only want one thing. Repartee. I can't count how many times men…
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