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"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them."

"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."

"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting."

"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money."

"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject."
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