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Quote by Joseph Addison
A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own hea

A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. – Joseph Addison

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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. – Claude-Adrien Helvétius

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The paper burns, but the words fly away. – Akiba ben Joseph

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy

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