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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.

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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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