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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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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Greatness Justice Policy
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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