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"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything."
Explore more quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
"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."
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