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Quote by Francis Bacon
By indignities men come to dignities. - Francis Bacon

By indignities men come to dignities. – Francis Bacon

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. – Francis Bacon

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Men are what their mothers made them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls… because they can. – Kim Cattrall

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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. – Albert Schweitzer

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana

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Were taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me theyre of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. – Alanis Morissette

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