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An Irishman fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers


Charles Caleb Colton

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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 Le moment présent a un avantage sur tous les autres : il nous appartient.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most en...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must fi...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are bot...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
CHARLES CALEB COLTON War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so sav...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The old ways are the safest and surest ways
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old sy...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one pro...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquain...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, real...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON