To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

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The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

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It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

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