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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

Cato the Younger

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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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Concern Deceive Government Happiness Instruction Men Naked Nothing Private Strive Themselves
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Betraying Liberty People Sapping Treason
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Appreciation Biter Fruit Root Study Sweet Teacher
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Dream Fear Hope Image Regard Since
By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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Banquet Carbage Dine Dinner Eat Enjoy Half Lot Other Surpasses Vegetable Vegetables Wish
Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government–a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave.
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Bold Busines Come Dishonest Fit Governwemnt Men Middle People Private Say Some Tyrants
This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Activity Art Discovery Exert Film Human Itself Percussion Remembrance Soul
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Both Concern Condieer Iner Men Reveals Say Silence Soul Speech
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Conversation Extremes Forwardness Reserve
The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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Arbiter Ascertain Equality Every Fruit Honest Limitation Man Manner Reward
For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
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Lord Men Over Reign Rightful Save Title Usurpation
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Act Behold Freedom Men Tyrant
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Body Decay File Indolemnce Sloth Soul
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Doing Evil Learn Men Nothing
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Honest Men Seldom Vagrant

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