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"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

William Penn, English Leader

Clarity, End, Ostentation, Speech, Words

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"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

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"Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom."

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world."

"Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us."

"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns."

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"Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it."

"Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense."

"A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers."

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