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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
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
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
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication 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
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality

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