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- Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
- Moralia
- Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Dawn, Sec. 297
- Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The trust I have is in mine innocence,
and therefore am I bold and resolute. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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