It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.
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It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.
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...one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.
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