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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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