Avarice is the vice of declining years.
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
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