Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

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My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

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The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

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Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

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The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.

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There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

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The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

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If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there. ― Sojourner Truth

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