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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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