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"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

"Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way."

"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger."

"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."

"Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten."

"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
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