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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Charles Caleb Colton

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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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