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English Historian, 1737-1794
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I was never less alone than when by myself”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule”

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