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One Quotes by Richard Whately
- To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
- It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
- Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
- One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
- Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
- To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
- As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with…
- Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
- Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
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