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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

— Charles Caleb Colton Lacon (1820)

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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Lacon (1820)

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Lacon (1820)

That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

Lacon (1820)

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often to despise what we really fear.

Lacon (1820)

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such astonishment as a proud man.

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