Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIf you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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