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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

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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 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
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
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level

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