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| Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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| Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
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| History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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| Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy.
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| All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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| Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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| Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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| Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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| Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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| The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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| This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
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| Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.
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| There are four kinds of Homicide felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
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| Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
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| We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
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