"No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive."
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"We do what we must, and call it by the best names."
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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
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"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."
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"I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints"
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"No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also."
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"The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith"
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"The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person."
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"Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls."
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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
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"I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son."
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"There is properly no history, only biography."
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"Courage consists in equality to the problem before us."
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"It is a luxury to be understood."
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"Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay"
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"Genius Borrows nobly."
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"Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!"
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"There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many."
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"The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most."
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"The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand."
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