Charles Caleb Colton - Let those who would affect singularity with

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

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Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

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