Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. ✨ Charles C…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.63
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1866). Lacon: or, Many things in few words, p.38
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1836). Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few … ▶
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many T … ▶
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Address … ▶

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.63

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