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

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
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
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value

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

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