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"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

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"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."

"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."

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"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."

"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice."
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