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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Care Command Influence Reading
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Female Forgiveness Liberty
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Enough Satisfaction True
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bear Beggar Refusal
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Doubt Faith
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Art Fools Hear Moments Publish Reading Sink Talk Value
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Alone Book Himself Man Study
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success
A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Empty Himself Man Profound Reserve Suspect
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Accompany Establishment Oneself Reputation Secure Way
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Admire Difficult Fine Writing
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Age Old Youth
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Carry Compare Talk Weight
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Choice Evil Human Leave

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

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