The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others it is a fatal but common error
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility
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