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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: Before Boy Enough Happy He Him Know Mother Nonsense Old Old Enough Sense Talking Tired Whose

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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.

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Topics: Hearts Humble Hypocrites Our Ourselves Proud Seem Sound Talk Whenever While Words

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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

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Topics: Ability Character Condemns Even He His Information Own Perhaps Person Praises Standard Surer Than

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A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: Evil He Himself His Looking Man Mostly Neighbor Prone Sees Suspect

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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: Examples Excellent Follow Indeed Modest None People Set Them Things Vain Were Will Would

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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: Christianity Obedience Paganism Strength Virtue

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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

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Topics: Ambitious Being Grand Many Saying Things

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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: Almost Always Crimes Little Much Shock Sometimes Too Too Much Us Vices

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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: All Things Bad Bias Easier Evil Gain Getting Good Harder Loss Natural Our Proof Quicker Rid Slower Than Things

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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.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: Act Apt Bad Good Impulse Men More Much Neither Nor Persons Principle Since Than Them Think

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 13th, 1834

Died: January 22nd, 1903

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