"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!"
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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."
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"To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away."
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"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."
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"It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong."
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"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife."
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"Kindness will always attract kindness."
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"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."
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"Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart."
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"And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye."
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"Nobody loves life like an old man."
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"Love, you mock us for your sport."
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"You win the victory when you yield to friends."
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"In season, all is good."
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"When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed."
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"To the person who is afraid, everything rustles."
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"A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance."
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"Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them."
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"What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?"
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"Strike at a great man, and you will not miss."
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