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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. - [Civilization] The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. - [Fear] The movement of the species is upward. - [Aspiration] The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. - [Prejudice] The public is wiser than the wisest critic. - [Critics] The variation of excellence among men is rather in degree than in kind. - [Excellence] Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. - [Gossip] It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. - History of the United States (vol. III, ch. VI) [Government] The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. - History of the United States--Wm. Penn's Treaty with the Indians [Friendship] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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