The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.Francis Bacon
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The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
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Nuptial love makes mankind friendly love perfects it but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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That law may be set down as good which is certain in meaning, just in precept, convenient in execution, agreeable to the form of government, and productive of virtue in those that live under it.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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