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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
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
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue

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