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" Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. "

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" The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. "

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" I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. "

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" Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. "

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