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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes: The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
         

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.


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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
         



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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.



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The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.



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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.



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



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