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Honesty is the best policy.
~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii. ~

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These South savannahs may yet prove battle-fields.
~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 162, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970).

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A Government like ours has so many safety-valves, giving vent to overheated passions, that it carries within itself a relief against the infirmities from which the best of human Institutions cannot be exempt.
~ Letter to General La Fayette, November 25, 1820 (James Madison, 1865, III , pages 189-191) ~

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
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Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
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~ Notes on Suffrage, written at different periods after his retirement from public life (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 27) ~
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