Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife. - Charles Caleb Colton - Quotesmemo.com

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When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

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Charles Caleb Colton

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

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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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