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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.

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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Hands Marriage Oneself
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Comfort Gentle Human
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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Greatness Mindset Peace Wealth
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Creature Fear Live Yourself
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Flower Scent Shower Walk
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength

Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.

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