How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our … - Charles Caleb Colton

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My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

Charles Caleb Colton

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

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