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Charles Caleb Colton

"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."

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"Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk."

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"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."

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"We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law."

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"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety."

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"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there."

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"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."

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"Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent."

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"There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs."

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"Few great men would have got past personnel."

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"Stronger by weakness, wiser men become."

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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."
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"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."
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"Mystery is not profoundness."
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"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
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"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."
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"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."
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"Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say."
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"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."
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