If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others exc…

Charles Caleb Colton
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If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1836). Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.476
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, A … ▶
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. ✨ Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 582, 1895.
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If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1836). Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.476

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