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Charles Caleb Colton - From the Advice category:
We ask advice, but we mean approbation. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Charles Caleb Colton - From the Books category:
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. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Charles Caleb Colton - From the Friendship category:
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Charles Caleb Colton - From the Genius category:
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed: the throes are in the conception, the pleasure is the birth. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Charles Caleb Colton - From the Humanity category:
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Charles Caleb Colton - From the Humility category:
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Charles Caleb Colton - From the Imitation category:
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Charles Caleb Colton - From the Innovation category:
We ought not to be overanxious to encourage innovation, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Charles Caleb Colton - From the Knowledge category:
We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Charles Caleb Colton - From the Moderation category:
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Charles Caleb Colton - From the Opportunity category:
Great minds must be ready not only to take the opportunities, but to make them. (Charles Caleb Colton)
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