It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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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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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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