Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes. . .
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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