They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
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When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
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The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candour of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.
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