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tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
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Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
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The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
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Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
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Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
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How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
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It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.
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As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.
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Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.
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