Everyone in a crowd has the power to throw dirt 9 out of 10 have the inclination.
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottomWilliam Hazlitt
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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It is surely a distinct question, what you can persuade people to do by argument and fair discussion, and what you may lawfully compel them to do, when reason and remonstrance fail.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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