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Lacon (1820)
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It is true that each disorder has a thousand prescriptions, but not a single remedy.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
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No men despise physic so much as physicians, because no men so thoroughly understand how little it can perform.
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Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
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If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?
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The science of mathematics performs more than it promises.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Charles Caleb Colton
Born:
1780
Died:
1832
(aged 52)
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