Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined if the latter, gross and sensual.
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Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.Charles Colton
An Irishman fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers
Charles Colton
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
Charles Colton
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
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Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself that he is one of the number
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
Charles Colton
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