The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

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