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"Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures."

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"It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him."

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"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

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"It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects."

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"Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory."

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"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."

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"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience."

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"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

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"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."

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