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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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