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"Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age"

--STEELE.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.--BISHOP TAYLOR.
Learning is better worth than house or land.--CRABBE.

LIBERALITY.--If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if
rich, by your good deeds.--JOUBERT.
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it
rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own.--BACON.
Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.--LA BRUYERE.
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that
withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
--PROVERBS 11:24.
Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in giving
judiciously.--LA BRUYERE.
The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be
watered also himself.--PROVERBS 11:25.

LIBERTY.--The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
--THOMAS JEFFERSON.
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it.
--COWPER.
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior
to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive
of a good life.--BISHOP BUTLER.
Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed.--BURKE.
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.--AUERBACH.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
--ADDISON.


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