"The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought."
-Edward Young
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"The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss."
-Edward Young
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"One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame."
-Edward Young
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"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety."
-Edward Young
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"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."
-Edward Young
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"Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy."
-Edward Young
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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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