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First impressions are often the

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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If we wish to know

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
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The contemplation of truth and

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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Those who can command themselves

Those who can command themselves command others.
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The love of liberty is

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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Man is the only animal

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
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There is nothing more likely

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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No really great man ever

No really great man ever thought himself so.
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Prejudice is the child of

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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If I have not read

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
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