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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
Conscience
"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another."
Man
"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
Truth
"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."
Intelligence
"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
Truth
"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."
God
"Avarice is the vice of declining years."
Emotional
"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
Society
"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
Envy
"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."
Society
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