It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but and truth were not and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
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The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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