"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."

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"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."

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

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"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."

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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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"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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