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We are all human, and all do wrong.

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tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
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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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Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
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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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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
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It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.
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God has given the salt lick to the deer and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
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I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.
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If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
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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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There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
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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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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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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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The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
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Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
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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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The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
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