Thought is the parent of the deed.
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The past is all holy to us the dead are all holy even they that were wicked when alive.Thomas Carlyle
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
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A whiff of grapeshot.
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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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