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"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
Change
"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."
Men
"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."
Virtue
"It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen."
Resentment
"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
Gentleman
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
Corruption
"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."
Difficulty
"There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done."
War
"Growth is the only evidence of life."
Life
"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
Fault
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