The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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