The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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