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"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything."

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
Explore more quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

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

"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."

"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
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