Accomplishment Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.”

Charles Caleb Colton

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