Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

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“Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.” — Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
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“Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.” — Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

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“Although the proportion of those who do think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself that he is one of the number.” — Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
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“Although the proportion of those who do think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself that he is one of the number.” — Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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“Ambition is to the mind, what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower, by reason of our blindness. But alas, when we are at the summit of a vain ambition, we are also at the depth of real misery. We are placed where time cannot improve, but must impair us; where chance and change cannot befriend, but may betray us; in short, by attaining all we wish, and gaining all we want, we have only reached a pinnacle, where we have nothing to hope, but every thing to fear.” — Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
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“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
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