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• Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates.
  The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vai...
• Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
  -- Samuel Butle...
• All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly.
  To believe none so is something worse. -- John Quincy Adam...
• Small things make base men proud. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI
• The superiority of some men is mere local. They are great because their associates are little.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly.
  To believe none so is something worse. -- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)...
• Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
  Conscience makes egotists of us all. -- Oscar Wilde...