"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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