Charles Caleb Colton
English author and clergyman; b. 1780; d. 1832
Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/a05b6vef · submitted 1997
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
tiny.ag/m3eo71lp · submitted 1997
True friendship is like sound health -- the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
tiny.ag/pcf4akr5 · submitted 1999
We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1.247, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/cnifx1o4 · submitted 1997
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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