The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.Samuel Butler
For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure tangible material prosperity in this world is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
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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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But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease.
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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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