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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Affect Appearance Assume Best Woman
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Care Command Influence Reading
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
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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Logic Science Togetherness Tools Work
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Excellence Himself Privacy Station Talk
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Difference Fools Greatness Happiness Wisdom
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Cure Goodness Immoderate Remedy Willing Worst
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Book Friendship Goodness
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
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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Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste

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