"Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors."
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"Being is the great explainer."
"It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all."
"I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks."
"Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men."
"There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect."
"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."
"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue."
"When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently."
"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."
"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."
"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."
"Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak."
"No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead."
"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds."
"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."
"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."