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Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

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I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; be...more

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I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of mor...more

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

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Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American e...more