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Such Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such…
- 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…
- Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would…
- 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…
- Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle…
- Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such…
- Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn…
- All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of…
- Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote…
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