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Samuel Richardson

"The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad."

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"The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."
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