Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.
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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
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The privative blessingsthe blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity which we enjoy deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
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A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation sober counsels and ingenuous actions open deportment and sweet carriage sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding love of God and self-denial peace and confidence hol
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