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1. "Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible." ~ George Bancroft
2. "In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person." ~ George Bancroft
3. "Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul." ~ George Bancroft
4. "By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy." ~ George Bancroft
5. "The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred." ~ George Bancroft
6. "The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another." ~ George Bancroft
7. "The public is wiser than the wisest critic." ~ George Bancroft
8. "Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect." ~ George Bancroft
9. "The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority." ~ George Bancroft
10. "Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement." ~ George Bancroft
11. "The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force." ~ George Bancroft
12. "Avarice is the vice of declining years." ~ George Bancroft

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