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- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct…
- The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are…
- Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded…
- I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without…
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