A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

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  To be great is to be misunderstood.

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  The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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  The first step of wisdom is to accuse everything; the last, to make peace with everything.

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  The ordinary mind always conforms to the prevailing opinion and the prevailing fashion.

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  Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.

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  The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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