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Famous Quotes By Charles Caleb Colton

Famous quotes made by the English clergyman and epigrammatic writer, Charles Caleb Colton. He was born in 1780 and died in 1832.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

When the million applaud, you ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good.

Lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from themselves.

Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man has put asunder.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold and the other to be buried.

There's one fool at least in every married couple.

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