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Quote by Alexander Pope
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning t

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. – Alexander Pope

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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His cant be wrong whose life is in the right. – Alexander Pope

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! – Alexander Pope

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Natures God. – Alexander Pope

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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. – Roald Dahl

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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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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men. – Epicurus

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