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The most positive men are the most credulous. - Alexander Pope

The most positive men are the most credulous. – Alexander Pope

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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. – Alexander Pope

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Observation
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Alexander Pope
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. – Alexander Pope

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Sons
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Alexander Pope
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own. – H. G. Wells

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Men

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. – Henry David Thoreau

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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. – Bertrand Russell

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

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