Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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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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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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