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• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• There is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires -- if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical .
  .. A wish for the irrational is not to be achieved, whether the sacrificial victims are willing or not....
• There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil.
  The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us....
• Perhaps we are wiser, less selfish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago.
  But we are still imperfectly all these good things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both....
• No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more courageous than health.
  -- Colto...
• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....
• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....
• So close, no matter how far... couldn't be much more from the heart.
  Forever trusting who we are, and nothing else matters....
• Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
  -- Machiavelli...