"Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous."

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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

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"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages."

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"But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature."

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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

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"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum."

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"Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into."

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"All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly."

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"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."

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"There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state."

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"The thing I fear most is fear."

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"I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of."

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"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

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"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."

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"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."

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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."

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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

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"No wind favors him who has no destined port."

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"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."

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"To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.."

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"It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it."

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"It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice."

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"Habit is second nature."

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