As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBooks, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLife isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMake no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWhen you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWar is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWe are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONInsults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONImmitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHappiness leads none of us by the same route.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONButler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNext to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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