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"This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted."

"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."

"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."
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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."

"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."

"Religion is a distraction from true education."

"The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow."
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