Avarice is the vice of declining years.

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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

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The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

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