Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events...

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events...

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices...

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices...

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than...

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it...

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it...

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who...

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who...

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be...

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be...

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no...

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no...

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get...

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get...

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

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

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it