Augustus William Hare Quotes
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Unless society can effect by education what Lord Monboddo holds man to have done by willing it, and can get rid of her tail, it will be wisest to let the educated classes keep their natural station at the head.
[Society]
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Vice is the greatest of all Jacobins, the archlevellor.
[Vice]
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We like slipping, but not falling: our real desire is to be tempted enough.
[Temptation]
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We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
[Repentance]
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that most people are so shy of praising anything.
[Praise]
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What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
[Egotism]
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? - When listeners refrain from evil hearing.
[Slander]
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. - Eschew fine words as you would rouge, and love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek.
[Style]
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