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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Baron de Montesquieu

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War

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