It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.
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True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.Samuel Butler
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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