The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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