Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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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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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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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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There are male as well as female gossips.
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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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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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