The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science … - Charles Caleb Colton

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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

Charles Caleb Colton

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.

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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

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