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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Appreciate Beautiful Intimate Substance True
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Cheerful Life Old Sun Winter
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Logic Science Togetherness Tools Work
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Beginning End Magnificiant Mathematics Study
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Grand Misery Passion Success
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Grave Precious Reputation Weakness Weapon Whisper
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Experience Finding Improvement Live Moral Talent Weakness

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

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