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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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