Avarice is the vice of declining years.
~George Bancroft

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
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The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
~George Bancroft

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