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" To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. "
William Hazlitt
Anything
Breed
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" Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. "
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" I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. "
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" Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. "
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" A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. "
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" There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. "
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" A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. "
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" The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. "
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" Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. "
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" It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. "
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" If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. "
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" Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. "
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" A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. "
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" The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. "
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" To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. "
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" Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. "
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" No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. "
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