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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton
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From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
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Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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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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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton