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"The march of the human mind is slow."
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"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
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"The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear."
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"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."
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"Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many."
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"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
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"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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