Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books and I think no chair is so much needed.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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