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Re: ~ Charles Caleb Colton Quotes ~
« Reply #30 on: February 16, 2014, 08:55:51 PM »
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
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« Reply #31 on: February 16, 2014, 08:56:33 PM »
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
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« Reply #32 on: February 16, 2014, 08:57:15 PM »
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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« Reply #33 on: February 16, 2014, 08:58:03 PM »
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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« Reply #34 on: February 16, 2014, 08:58:45 PM »
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
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« Reply #35 on: February 16, 2014, 08:59:35 PM »
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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« Reply #36 on: February 16, 2014, 09:00:16 PM »
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
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« Reply #37 on: February 16, 2014, 09:01:07 PM »
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.
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« Reply #38 on: February 16, 2014, 09:01:50 PM »
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
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« Reply #39 on: February 16, 2014, 09:02:24 PM »
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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« Reply #40 on: February 17, 2014, 10:45:50 AM »
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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« Reply #41 on: February 17, 2014, 10:46:30 AM »
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.
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« Reply #42 on: February 17, 2014, 10:47:08 AM »
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
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« Reply #43 on: February 17, 2014, 10:47:38 AM »
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.
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« Reply #44 on: February 17, 2014, 10:48:13 AM »
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing to find honest men to publish it and to get sensible men to read it.
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