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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Charles Caleb Colton

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Beginning End Magnificiant Mathematics Study
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Act Goodness Growth Point
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Cheerful Genius Gravity Harm Mistake Science
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Grand Misery Passion Success
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success
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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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Body Cure Discover Human Mindset Weakness
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Each Other Family Ignorance Nation Pride
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Curiosity Death Language Live Talk
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Adult Convinience Finding Purity Truth

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

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