"Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not."
-Laurence Sterne
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"Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions."
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"An English man does not travel to see English men."
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"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself."
-Laurence Sterne
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"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners."
-Laurence Sterne
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"Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves."
-Laurence Sterne
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
-Alexander Pope
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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
-John Ruskin
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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