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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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