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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

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