How can a mans candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kindimpetuous armblooded leonine never crawling crafty reptilian.
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He had no ideal world of dead heroes he knew little of the life of men in the past he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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