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Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton föddes 1780 och dog 1832 - engelsk författare och prästman.
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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman

Lykke

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools, with her ghost

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded

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

Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another

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.

Godhet

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

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

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes

Gräl

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Krig

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