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" Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. "

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Knowledge Is Power

" It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. "

" Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. "

" When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. "

" If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. "

" Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. "

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" There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. "

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" A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. "

" There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. "

" In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. "

" Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. "

" The remedy is worse than the disease. "

" I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. "

" Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. "

" The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. "

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