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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics

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