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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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