"Pride is never so loud as when in chains."
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"Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?"
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"Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections."
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"The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber."
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"There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or at the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names; such is history."
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"Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction."
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"To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble."
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