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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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

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