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“What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!”

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Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

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I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus…

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The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

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There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that…

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Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

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No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes…

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As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead of acknowledging…

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History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

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It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature…

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It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking…

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What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and…

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Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the…

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