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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

Baron de Montesquieu

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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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
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
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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