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/ page 962 of 1205 /All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
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Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
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We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
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Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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