If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
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