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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom

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