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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Assume Begun Common Everything House Low Made Meddling Prophecies See Universal Verify Vulgar
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Always Degree Genius Humor People Some
Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Appear Arteries Circulate Democracy Externally Healthful Lifeblood never Support System Vein
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Better Equal Love Myself Superior
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Armonty Conquest Contain Eapon Future Human Language Mind Past Trophies
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Deficient Humor Mind Organize Sense Throughout
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Argumentation Arm Constitute Escutcheon Honorable Letter Literature Man Merely
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Clergy Fraud God Hurch Interest Liar Orthodox Publish
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Animal Brute Consonant Man Only Sound User Vowel
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Easy Persecution Very Virtue
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Begin End Family Fear Politics Unusually
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Aged Children Inhuman Often Through World
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Good Other Prilivege Sincere Sympathy Wishes
We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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All Almost Animal Concession Degree Differ Elephant Materailsitc School
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Bitter Man Necessity Perplex Shall Whose

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