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"The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself."
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"Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light."
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"To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another."
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"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."
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"There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil."
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"Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man."
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"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."
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"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary."
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"All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth."
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