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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
Economist
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Priest
Theologian
London
England
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Neighbor
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Community
Neglecting
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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
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Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
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He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
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The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.
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The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
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