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Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
- The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
- The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
- The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
- The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
- There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
- 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.
- There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
- Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
- To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
- To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
- True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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