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“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”

Charles Caleb Colton · Marriage

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Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Knowledge

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Change

Charles Caleb Colton

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Knowledge

Charles Caleb Colton

War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

War