Words, when written, crystallize history their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past
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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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