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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its... →
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Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and... →
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
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