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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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Knowledge is power.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

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