Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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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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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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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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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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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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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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