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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
Augustus William Hare
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Augustus William Hare
Age: 41 †
Born: 1792
Born: November 17
Died: 1834
Died: January 22
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away so more blood must be shed to renew it.
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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
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We like slipping, but not falling our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
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The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.
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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
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Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.
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Seeking is not always the way to find.
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