The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

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