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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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

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