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- So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save. - John Gay (1685 - 1732)
- Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. - Benjamin Johnson
- Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind. - Thomas Campbell (1777 - 1844)
- Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
- Elihu Burritt
- Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
- Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)
- I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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