Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Memories
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
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Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
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Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
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All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
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