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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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1823). Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan, p.63
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few W … ▶
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Thi … ▶
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
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.189

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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