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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

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