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The public is wiser than the wisest critic. - George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic. – George Bancroft

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Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity. – George Bancroft

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Presidents Day
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George Bancroft
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. – George Bancroft

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The public seldom forgive twice. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Public

No decent career was ever founded on a public. – Source Unknown

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Public

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – William Hazlitt

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Public

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. – H. L. Mencken

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I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657, translated from French

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Now, if you are like me – if you are like practically anybody in America – then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or… you know… all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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A short saying often contains much wisdom. – Sophocles

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History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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