"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

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"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."

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"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together."

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"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."

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"They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives."

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"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

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"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

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"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."

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"Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!"

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"If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time."

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