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• May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
• That best academy, a mother's knee.
• True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others…
• It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
• He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
• Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
• To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
• Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
• Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
• Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
• Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
• Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

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