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"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
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"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
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"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population."
"She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts."
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."
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