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"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."

"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."

"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."

"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."
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