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Quote by Sydney Smith
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in or

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

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Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. – Sydney Smith

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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith

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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. – Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)

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Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Courage crawls atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory! – Terri Guillemets

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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. – John Steinbeck

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The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. – Jello Biafra

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When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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