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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

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