Quote #12

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

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  3. There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
  4. Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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  8. Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

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