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- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
- Francis Hutcheson
- The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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