“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.”
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
