That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
- Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
- That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
- Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
- Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
- We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
- To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
- Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
- 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.
- Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
- To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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