Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
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A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.Samuel Johnson
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had rather; Have a turnip than his father.
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It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first.
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No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself.
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To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage
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