"Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer"
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"I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said."
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"The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them."
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"it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck."
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"Hate is only conquered by love."
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"The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!"
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