What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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