Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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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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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
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