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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
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
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
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
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People

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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