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"'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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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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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."
Courage
"Thou hast seen nothing yet."
Nothing
"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
Power
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
Experience
"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."
Character
"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
Reading
"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."
Humor
"I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."
Experience
"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness."
Coward
"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
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