Best quotes by Charles Caleb Colton on Will

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  • We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
    - Charles Caleb Colton
  • Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
    - Charles Caleb Colton
  • If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
    - Charles Caleb Colton
  • Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.
    - Charles Caleb Colton
  • If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
    - Charles Caleb Colton
  • Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
    - Charles Caleb Colton