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"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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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."

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."

"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."

"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."
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