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“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.”

George Bancroft

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Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

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Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

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Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

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