"A wise man may be duped as well……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton has 484 quotes on this site.
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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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that…
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for…
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We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to…
— Glen Hansard
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our…
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The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a…
— Ted Haggard
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Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in…
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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
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