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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
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"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."
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"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
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"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
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"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."
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"Nothing is to be feared but fear."
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"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
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"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
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