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“With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honour is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don’t resent them, you are not fit to live.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)