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- It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
- George Crabbe (1754 - 1832)
- It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
- No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
- I have thought too much to stoop to action.
- Adam De L'Isle
- Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
- It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
- One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix) - Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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