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«No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only»
«Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man»
«To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.»
«We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.»
«He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: root out
«If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: excel
«Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.»
«Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy»
«The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.»
«There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.»

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