Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBe real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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