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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
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
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
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate

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