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Wisest Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
- He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
- It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result…
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest,…
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