It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONAs that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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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.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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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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