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"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."
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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."
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