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CHARLES CALEB COLTON English sportsman and writer (1780 - 1832)

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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.
      - [Proverbs]

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
      - [Proverbs]

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
      - [Proverbs]

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
      - [Idleness]

Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.
      - [Proverbs]

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.
      - [Proverbs]

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
      - [Loneliness]

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
      - Lacon (p. 127) [Flattery]

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
      - Lacon (p. 205) [Applause]

Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
      - Lacon (p. 238) [Misfortune]

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary.
      - Lacon (p. 255) [Power]

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
      - Lacon (p. 362) [Choice]

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
      - Lacon (p. 80) [Friends]

That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
      - Lacon (preface) [Authorship]

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it.
      - Lacon (vol. I, XXV) [Religion]

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.
      - Lacon--Reflection [Gambling]

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