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"When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness."

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Amiability

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299

"There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad."

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Academia

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287

"Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed."

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Alliances

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205

"Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him."

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Argument

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169

"When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented."

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Water

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"If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s."

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Christians And Christianity

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146

"Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing."

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Benefactors

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141

"Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to."

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Morality

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136

"It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk."

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Alcohol And Alcoholism

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132

"An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed."

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Home

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"The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered."

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Opinions

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119

"Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence."

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Tact And Tactfulness

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112

"Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it."

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Waste

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109

"The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them."

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Experts

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106

"There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule."

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Rules

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103

"The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief."

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Crime And Criminals

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99

"Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away."

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Indecision

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98

"I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry."

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Regret

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"I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better."

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Illness

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78

"The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them."

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British Poet Quotes

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"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious."

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Work

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