I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
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Nationality: American Type: First Lady Born: December 22, 1744 Death: October 28, 1818 |
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

