The majority, compose them how you will, are a herd, and not a very nice one.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.William Hazlitt
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We must be doing something to be happy.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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A man must make his choice not only between virtue and vice, but between different virtues.
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We may, with instruction and opportunity mend our manners, or else alter for the worse, -- as the flesh and fortune shall serve but the character, the internal, original bias, remains always the same, true to itself to the very last.
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