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Thing Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
- The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of…
- No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost…
- There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read…
- It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
- Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
- It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and…
- Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.
- Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but…
- Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to…
- The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
- 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.
- To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
- A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not…
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