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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Deserve Fear Gratitude Kind Pay Powerful Praise
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Born Eyes Man Oneself Proverb
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Complete Integrity Oneself
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Accompany Establishment Oneself Reputation Secure Way
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Difference Fools Greatness Happiness Wisdom
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Admire Difficult Fine Writing
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Awkward Beginning Embarrassment Subject Theme Writing

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