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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government."

"The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies."

"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

"I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else."

"Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."
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