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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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.



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.

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

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