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— Charles Caleb Colton"Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain."
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Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
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