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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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