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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.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Advantage Authors Backs Behind Dead Down Faces Flatter Intrude Living Never Nor Our Over Privacy Quit Shelves Slander Society Take Them Until Us

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Mystery is not profoundness.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Mystery

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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Fashion Feed Happiness Ladies Love Pride Starve Vanity

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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Alexander Contentment Depends Enough Large Little Too True Tub World

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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Because Hate Know Persons Some Them Will

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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Energy Enough Further Go He Out Place Plant Root Should Try Vice Virtue

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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Better Dinner Feast Grace Marriage Sometimes Than Where

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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Away Day Done Every Every Day Little May Men Most Much Patches Produces Those Throw Time Which

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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Nothing Say You

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Adolescent Aiming Being By The Time Fifty Stop Time

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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