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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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