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"The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state."

"There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation."
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"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."

"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."

"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."

"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."

"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."
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