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"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."
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"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it."
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"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself."
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"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."
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"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."
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"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
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"Grief is a species of idleness."
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"Round numbers are always false."
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