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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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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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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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