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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

Samuel Johnson

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Curiosity Generosity Greatness Mindset
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Attempt Himself Life Man Possession Waste
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Civilization Poor Test True

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

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