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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann
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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
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Politician
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Franklin
Massachusetts
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Honesty
Unfaithfulness
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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
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If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
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He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
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Love must be the same in all worlds.
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