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«The debt which cancels all others.»
«To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
«Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.»
«Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.»
«Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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levity
«It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.»
«Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.»
«The old ways are the safest and surest ways»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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safest
«To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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racehorse
«There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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