"That cardinal virtue, temperance."
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"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
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"Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages."
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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
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"The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end."
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"Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting."
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"Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal."
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"I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion."
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"He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with."
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"The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service."
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"I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people."
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"Contempt is not a thing to be despised."
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"No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity."
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"My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty."
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"Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite."
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"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly."
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"Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools."
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"Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries."
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"The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!"
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"It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor."
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