"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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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."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."

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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."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"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."

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet."

"Hatred is inveterate anger."

"You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself."

"True nobility is exempt from fear."

"Hatred is settled anger."

"The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind."

"No man in his senses will dance."

"There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften."

"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."

"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."