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"Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves."
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"Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."

"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

"It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles."

"There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!"
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."

"If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city."

"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."

"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
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