To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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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.Charles Caleb Colton
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.
Charles Caleb Colton
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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There is a paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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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.
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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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