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Hope Is The Most Treacherous Of All Human Fancies.

Tis Hard To Live In A World Where All Look Upon You As Below Them.

It Is Better For A Man To Die At Peace With Himself Than To Live Haunted By An Evil Conscience!

Equality, In A Social Sense, May Be Divided Into That Of Condition, And That Of Rights. Equality Of Condition Is Incompatible With Civilization, And Is Found Only To Exist In Those Communities That Are But Slightly Removed From The Savage State. In Practice, It Can Only Mean A Common Misery. Equality Of Rights Is A Peculiar Feature Of Democracies. These Rights Are Properly Divided Into Civil And Political, Though Even These Definitions Are Not To Be Taken As Absolute, Or As Literally Exact.

The Tendency Of Democracies Is, In All Things, To Mediocrity.