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In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, s

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson

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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson

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Daughters
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Thomas Jefferson
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Society
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers

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Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

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If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. – Georges Courteline, La philosophie de Georges Courteline, 1917

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. – Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949

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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. – George Eliot

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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. – Norman Cousins

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Theres no religion but sex and music. – Sting

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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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