Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.Thomas Jefferson
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(Academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrial pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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History, by apprising (men) of the past, will enable them to judge of the future, it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations
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