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"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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"Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love."

"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."

"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."

"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
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