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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHuman foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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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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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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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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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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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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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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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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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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