We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the heart of man for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
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Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
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