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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity reason and justice tell me I ought to do.

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, fo

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.

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    I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

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