What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprized, or said in some way, that we felt like a new man in the old, and to retain it would be like putting new wine in an old bottle.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
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Let us not underrate the value of a fact it will one day flower into a truth.
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