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"I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it."
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
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"We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it."
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"I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it."
Man
"I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds."
Liberty
"Solitude begets whimsies."
Society
"No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune."
Fortune
"People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed."
People
"Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think."
Death
"Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy."
Religion
"The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard."
Time
"We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts."
Society
"Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it."
Trust
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