Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONGrant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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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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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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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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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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