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Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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The march of the human mind is slow.

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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

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To innovate is not to reform.

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

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