It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.

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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

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