Deformity Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.”

Charles Caleb Colton

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A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

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Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved…

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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

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Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

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