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Better too much form than too little.

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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
Economist
Philosopher
Priest
Theologian
London
England
Manners
Form
Littles
Better
Little
Much

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Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.
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Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.
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That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
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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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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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Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.
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All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.
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Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
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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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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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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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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
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A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
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