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A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide. - [Lying] Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them. - [Fanaticism] High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of. - [Ancestry] Short, isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts for the regulation of human conducts. - [Apothegms] The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles. - [Argument : Discussion] Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself. - [Enthusiasm] Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. - Divine Legation (bk. V, app.) [Enthusiasm]
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