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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Caleb Colton

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Imagination Known Pain Pleasure Power
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
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Attack Body Mindset Privilege Wealth
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Enjoyment Grace Greatness Himself Intimacy Rank
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Defect Enemy Learning Ourselves Side Success Surround World
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Female Improvement Intellectual Male Pledge
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Game People War Win
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Goodness Greatness Life Man
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Chain Discover Mindset
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

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