Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Mark Twain in Following the Equator (1897)
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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