Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Charles Caleb Colton
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Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.131
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.190
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). … ▶
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. ✨ Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). L.P., p.426
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many T … ▶

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