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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Build Food Home Honor Monument Ourselves Pull Reward
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Cheerful Genius Gravity Harm Mistake Science
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
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 excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Age Old Youth
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Kill Ourselves Passion Strong Submission
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Case Empty Follow Misfortune Pain Shadow Substance
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Break Failure Strength Success
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Flattery Form High Imitation
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Astonishment Improvement Life People
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bear Beggar Refusal
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
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Carry Compare Talk Weight
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Dangerous Mystery Sun

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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