"A man is sorry to be honest for nothing."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

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