Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good b…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.5
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.210
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock. ✨ Lacon: or many things in a few wor … ▶
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Fe … ▶

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