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Charles Caleb Colton
1780 - 1832
Nationality: English
Category: Writer
Subcategory: English Writer

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

   

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

   

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

   

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

   

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

   

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

   

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.

   

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

   

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

   

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

   

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

   

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

   

Mystery is not profoundness.

   

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

   

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

   

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

   

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

   

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

   

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

   

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

   

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