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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."
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"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like."

"Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance."

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."

"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost."

"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."

"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."

"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own."
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