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| Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| In our judgement of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.'' | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
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| Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
| As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ''What is truth?'' | Richard Whately | 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer |
