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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
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"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."
"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
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