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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.

Charles Caleb Colton

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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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