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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting.
Lavater.
355
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
Carlyle.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds; and they must be tolerated in an admixture of it in some trifling or enthusiastic shape or other; else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found necessary to the strongest.
Burke.