The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after the date.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.Charles Caleb Colton
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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