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• A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
• A man's good breeding is the best security against another's bad manners. -- Chesterfield
• The maxim that "Honesty is the best policy" is one which, perhaps, no one is ever habitually guided by in practice.
  An honest man is always before it, and a knave is generally behind it....
• F x S = k. The product of freedom and security is a constant.
• Custom will often blind one to the good as well as to the evil effects of any long established system.
  -- Bishop Richard Whately...
• The best way to get rid of worries is to let them die of neglect.
• The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think mush about it.
  -- Richard Whately (1787-1863)...
• Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them.
  There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion than with a sword....