A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while Before they begin to decay.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
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Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek, To take one blow, and turn the other cheek It is not written what a man shall do If the rude caitiff smite the other too.
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