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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

Baron de Montesquieu

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
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 life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue

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