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E. F. L. Wood

" In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines. "

Weakness , Perfect , Philosopher

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" True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. "

Humility , Positive , Meaningful

" Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. "

Men , Views , Wise

" I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. "

Education , Thinking

" The past is the best way to suppose what may come. "

May , Past , Way

" The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have "

Argument , Contention , Winning

" If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. "

Funny , Law , Complaining

" A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. "

Men , Enemy , Names

" Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. "

Men , Anger , Two

" Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it. "

World , Satisfaction

" Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. "

Company , Life , Way , Good

" Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. "

Men , Gratitude , Inspirational

" If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world. "

World , Men , Liberty

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