The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
EDMUND BURKEGood company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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