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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Allow Discipline Fear Myself
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Brave Death Road Sense Terrible
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Build Food Home Honor Monument Ourselves Pull Reward
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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Goal Hollow Motive Place Show True
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Hurry Mark Mindset Oneself Strong Weakness
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Death Evidence Fools
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Integrity Man Ourselves Price Purchase Virtue
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Anand Thakur
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Anand Thakur

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

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