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

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The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.
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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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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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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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Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
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Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?
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No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.
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We are all human, and all do wrong.
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If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property if we have property, we must have its rights if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.
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Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
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Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
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In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
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Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
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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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Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
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