Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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