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The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
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It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
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It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.
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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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