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We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood. - Charles Caleb Quotes

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed - Charles Caleb Quotes

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible - Charles Caleb Quotes

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave - Charles Caleb Quotes

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence - Charles Caleb Quotes

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted - Charles Caleb Quotes

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. - Charles Caleb Quotes

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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