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Edward F. Halifax

"When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters."

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"When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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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."

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

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

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

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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

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"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it."
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"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."
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