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"We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips."
"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."
"No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
"Don't break the rules when you haven't fully figured them out yet."
"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway."
"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."
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"Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity."
"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."
"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."
"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
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