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"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."
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"Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static."
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"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without."
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"The only training for the heroic is the mundane."
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"To innovate is not to reform."
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"I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others"
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"Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution."
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"There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance."
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"The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds."
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"The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience."
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"War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another."
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"Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves."
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"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."
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"An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty."
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"Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one."
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"A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend."
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"Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born."
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"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
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"The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right."
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