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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Charles Caleb Colton -
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton -
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
Charles Caleb Colton -
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Charles Caleb Colton
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Charles Caleb Colton -
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
Charles Caleb Colton -
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 -
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Charles Caleb Colton -
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton