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"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."
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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy."

"We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power."

"It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'"

"The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees."

"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world."

"Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself."

"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required."
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