Dependence begets subservience and venality suffocates the germ of virtue and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I cannot live without books.

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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law, than that he should escape.

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