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“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.”

Charles Caleb Colton · Truth

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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

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Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

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