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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. – Benjamin Franklin

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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

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The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. – Jane Addams

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