A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character.
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The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be To die is only to be as we were before we were born.
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
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