The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThat writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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