There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

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