We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste....
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A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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