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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States

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