It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.