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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke
Contempt
End
Man
Pride
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
Henry Bolingbroke
Patriotism
Virtue
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry Bolingbroke
Art
Virtue
Cause
Vice
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Henry Bolingbroke
Knowledge
First
Principles
Word
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Henry Bolingbroke
Men
Nations