Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
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