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History, Like Love, Is So Apt To Surround Her Heroes With An Atmosphere Of Imaginary Brightness.

Superstition Is A Quality That Seems Indigenous To The Ocean.

The Demagogue Is Usually Sly, A Detractor Of Others, A Professor Of Humility And Disinterestedness, A Great Stickler For Equality As Respects All Above Him, A Man Who Acts In Corners, And Avoids Open And Manly Expositions Of His Course, Calls Blackguards Gentlemen, And Gentlemen Folks, Appeals To Passions And Prejudices Rather Than To Reason, And Is In All Respects, A Man Of Intrigue And Deception, Of Sly Cunning And Management.

Friendship That Flows From The Heart Cannot Be Frozen By Adversity, As The Water That Flows From The Spring Cannogt Congeal In Winter.

Contact With The Affairs Of State Is One Of The Most Corrupting Of The Influences To Which Men Are Exposed.