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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

~Richard Whately

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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

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The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 1st, 1787

Died: October 8th, 1863

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