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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Admire Difficult Fine Writing
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
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
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Atheist Communication Destruction Light Mistake System Warmth Yourself Zeal
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Admit Justice Moments Myself Reading
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Enough Satisfaction True
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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