A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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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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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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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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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate 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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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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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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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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.
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