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- Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
- I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was…
- A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually…
- Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
- The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough…
- As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for…
- I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything…
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