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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them…
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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or…
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In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
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... too much brooding, not enough doing.
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