Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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