Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them, may hammer on wood forever no fire will follow.Charles Caleb Colton
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
Charles Caleb Colton
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
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Mystery is not profoundness.
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