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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Belongs Disappointed Nine Out Person Ten Times Tongue

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Beauty Companion Image Infinite Justice Law Like Lives Moral Sensible Soul Truth Us Virtue Within

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The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Another Class Fears Measure Men Rights

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Deceive Dishonesty God Grasping Himself Possible Were Would

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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Common Consent Crown Envy Excite Glory Gray Hairs Never Object Only Respect

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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Authority No Respect Obtain People Possess Respect Rights Where

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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Amusement Characters Depend Enough Exciting Lives Neighbors Those Truth Truth Is Who

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Brute Brute Force Civilization Common Degree Exact Force Intelligence Measure Mind Over Progress Wealth Which

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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Adopted Blindly Easily First Ignorance Interest More Preferred Prejudices Second Than

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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Conscience Errors Full Lives Mirror Our Our Lives Represents Shape Souls Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: October 3rd, 1800

Died: January 17th, 1891

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