Thus our democracy was, from an early period, the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic in the world.
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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
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We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.
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History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.
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