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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

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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
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
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
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

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