The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.Joseph Addison
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
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The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.
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Ideas in the mind are the transcript of the world words are the transcript of ideas And writing and printing are the transcript of words.
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