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“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities”
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“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”
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“Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.”
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“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility”
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“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”
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“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind”
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“The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason”
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“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
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“Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.”
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“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”
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“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'”
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