If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.Charles Caleb Colton
The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Tomorrow It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fools calendar.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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