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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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