A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.Thomas Paine
What we may obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly t is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
Thomas Paine
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
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