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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.


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CAESAR AUGUSTUS Hasten slowly.
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JULIUS CHARLES HARE I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchan...
ROBERT D. HARE These findings suggest there's a novel brain-signaling pathway in obesity-related heart failure and ...
JOSHUA M. HARE Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in gra...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones t...
CYRUS AUGUSTUS BARTOL Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls; No gold rewards, but ...
GOTTFRIED AUGUSTUS BURGER What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family&#...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, repli...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen wi...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET I never goes to law to mend my bargains.
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. Hi...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural ...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number o...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two op...
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