“Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.”
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“I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”
“To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.”
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
“All knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
“Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.”
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
“The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth.”