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"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"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."

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

"Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love."

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."

"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes."

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."

"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."

"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."
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