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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Blank Erase Errors Ignorance Writing
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Difference Health Man Money Poor Rich
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
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
The 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.
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Excellence Himself Privacy Station Talk
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Faith Fraud Greedy Imposter Prudent Swallow
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Avoid Better Dangerous Hurricane Shipwreck Storm Wait
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Relative Rich Wealth
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
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Anticipate Bliss Drink Enchant Love
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Dance Grand Happiness Life Mistress Route
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Afraid Coward Death Prevent Suicide Time
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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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

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