"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours."
-Charles Caleb Colton
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"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.“
-Charles Caleb Colton
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"Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never."
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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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"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
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"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."
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."
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