“History, a distillation of rumour.”
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.