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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
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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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
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Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises and they always poke the fire from the top.
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.
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Better too much form than too little.
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The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.
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As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.
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The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.
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Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.
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An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.
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When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
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