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 reentment; they may be milled even by mitaken ideas of virtue. In guiding or oppoing counciis, by which great public interets are fought to be promoted, men mut look to the means by which the country may be benefited, independently of private interet, and in poible caes, independently of private reputation. In the machine of State are many movements with which the people are not acquainted; and the rateman who guides them mut often erve the people faithfully and effec- tually by acting contrary to the opinions of what they conceive to be bed uited to their ervice. A virtuous tateman mut act from higher motives than either his own immediate interet, or his own immediate reputation: his intereft, a patriot tate- man mut remember, is that of his country; his reputation mut often be left to the jutice of poterity.

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