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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never.
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.
In politics as in religion, it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it.





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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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