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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor... Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

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He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate.

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

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Born: February 3, 1826
Died: March 24, 1877 (aged 51)
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