"A high degree of intellectual refinement in the……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male."
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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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…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
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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…
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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…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher…
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public…
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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I…
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't…
— Alain de Botton
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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