No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
More Quotes from Charles Caleb Colton:
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.Charles Caleb Colton
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton
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