We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
More from Charles Caleb Colton
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
Permalink to quote #76 We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
Permalink to quote #78 War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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