“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If you cannot inspire a woman with
“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.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He who studies books alone will know
“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Category: education
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In religion as in politics it so
“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We own almost all our knowledge not
“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Men are born with two eyes, but
“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Category: men
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to
“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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War kills men, and men deplore the
“War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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There is this difference between happiness and
“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.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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