Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Love will make men dare to die for their beloved -love alone and women as well as men.
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The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, And nothing else.
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