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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.