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However paradoxical it may seem, myth hides nothing: its function is to distort, not to make disappear.

Suffering; impossibility of being comfortable anywhere; oppression, irritations and remorse one after the next, everything under the sign wretchedness of man, used by Pascal.

Embarrassed and almost quickly because sometimes I feel that my mourning is merely a susceptibility to emotion. But all my life haven't I been just that: moved?

Is not any other desire but mine insane?

One story, perhaps apocryphal, claims that when Hamilton was asked why the framers omitted the word God from the Constitution, he replied, "We forgot.

His eloquence . . . seemed to require opposition to give it its full force.

After Seabury rebutted "A Full Vindication," Hamilton struck back with "The Farmer Refuted," an eighty-page tour de force that Rivington brought out on February 23, 1775.

task of government was not to stop selfish striving—a hopeless task—but to harness it for the public good.

I shall conclude [by] saying I wish there was a war. Alex. Hamilton.

In closing, Washington referred to the character of Jesus, "the Divine author of our blessed religion.

if Clinton was taken prisoner "it would be our misfortune, since the British government could not find another commander so incompetent to send in his place.

Even amid an insurrection that he supported, he fretted about the damage to constituted authority and worried about mob rule. Like

Emergencies seemed to fortify his confidence even as they introduced doubt or terror in others.

I will venture to pronounce it one of the most ludicrous performances which has been exhibited to public view during all the present controversy-Alexander Hamilton

Jefferson took often commonplace ideas and endowed them with majestic form.

To put Mr. Rockefeller's name prominently forward Ã¢â'¬Â¦ would impair the usefulness of the work.

Except for Florida, every southern state joined in the program.

Or perhaps Bill just wanted to be spared the inconvenience of doing it himself.

When he dozed during an emergency meeting, nobody dared disturb the royal snooze.

He was a much less clever monopolist than his mentor.

By one account, a dispute arose as to whether John would pay rent at the new house.

giving him more generous sympathy than he received in return

However, he was persistent, which pleased or displeased people according to taste.

Self-sufficiency and a contempt of the science and experience of others are too prevailing traits of character in this country," he wailed to John Jay.