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

—Charles Caleb Colton

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About Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton (11 December 1777 – 28 April 1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.

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

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

—Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

—Josh Billings

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

—Phyllis Diller

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In a quarrel, each side is right.

—Yiddish folk saying

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My conscience aches, but it's going to lose the fight.

—Allanah Myles

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History

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