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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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