War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.Charles Caleb Colton
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body we are half dead before we understand our disorder, And half cured when we do.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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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.
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Time is the most indefinable yet paradoxical of things the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires.
Charles Caleb Colton
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