Inclines

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“Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind. This generation inclines a little to congratulate itself on being the last of an illustrious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with satisfaction.... It is the good Adam contemplating his own virtue.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. But depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.”
—Thomas Fuller (1608–1661)