A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWhen you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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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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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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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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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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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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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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