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“A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.”

“When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get any thing by their Victory but new Masters.”

“A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy.”

“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”

“Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.”

“The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”

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