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George Bancroft Quotes
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
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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.
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
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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.
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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
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