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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
«War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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War
«Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
«It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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the mob
«Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man has put asunder»
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equity
«In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible»
«We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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earnestness
«The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
«The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom»
«That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton