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- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
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