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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bodies #change #climate #customs #empty

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#buried #dead #fame #flowers #future

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#brave #courage #danger #despises #make

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#been #fiercest #firmest #flame #formed

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#deprive #grave #life #may #most

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#friendship #holy #itself #made #more

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#admit #because #cease #compels #i

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#characters #i #like #me #people

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#consists #false #knowledge #negation #only