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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
         

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.


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



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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.



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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.



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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.



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