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Some frauds succeed from the ...

Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Sometimes the greatest advers...

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Deliberate with caution, but ...

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Hurry is the mark of a weak m...

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Time is the most undefinable ...

Time is the most undefinable 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.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Women that are the least bash...

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

An Irish man fights before he...

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

There are three kinds of prai...

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Our admiration of fine writin...

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Those who visit foreign natio...

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 942 quotes

Nothing so completely baffles...

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

True contentment depends not ...

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The drafts which true genius ...

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

There are three difficulties ...

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.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Commerce flourishes by circum...

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Much may be done in those lit...

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

Happiness, that grand mistres...

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 942 quotes

We ask advice, but we mean ap...

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

Charles Caleb Colton 942 quotes

The two most precious things ...

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

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The society of dead authors h...

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 942 quotes

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