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Than Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
- To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their…
- Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
- To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us -…
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to…
- Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
- No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than…
- To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
- Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
- In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny…
- There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
- Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
- Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
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