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George Bancroft has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
• Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
• The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully…
• Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
• Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
• Avarice is the vice of declining years.
• By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
• The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

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