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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
Conversation
Charles Caleb Colton

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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
Soul
Charles Caleb Colton

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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Silence
Charles Caleb Colton

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Anger
Charles Caleb Colton

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
Truth
Charles Caleb Colton

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

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Adversity
Charles Caleb Colton

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Prudence
Charles Caleb Colton

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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Conflict
Charles Caleb Colton

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Time and Time Management
Charles Caleb Colton

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Knowledge
Charles Caleb Colton

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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
Past
Charles Caleb Colton

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Ability
Charles Caleb Colton

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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Friends and Friendship
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Freedom
Charles Caleb Colton

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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
Advice
Charles Caleb Colton

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Fear
Charles Caleb Colton

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Knowledge
Charles Caleb Colton

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.
Success
Charles Caleb Colton

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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
Improvement
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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