“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.