Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think … ▶
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposi … ▶
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1 … ▶
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. ✨ Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). L.P., p.480

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