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Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
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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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Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
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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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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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I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.
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