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If we can advance any propositions that are both true and new, these are indisputably our own, by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own, by right of conquest.

— Charles Caleb Colton Lacon (1820)

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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Lacon (1820)

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Lacon (1820)

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often to despise what we really fear.

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