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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power

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