Accurate knowledge is the ...

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.
 Charles Simmons

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If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
 Charles Simmons
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
 Charles Simmons
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.
 Charles Simmons
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
 Charles Simmons
Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
 Charles Simmons