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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
[ Media ]
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Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
[ Integrity ]
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
[ Integrity ]
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
[ Ignorance ]
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
[ Pain ]
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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
[ Facts ]
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
[ Appearance ]
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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