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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Banker History Hoard Inflammatory Know Last Man Money Thing Wise
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Desert Expand Ignorance Knowledge Mirage Our Receding
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Art Diplomacy Especially Half Nothing Say Speak When
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Anarchist Ask Case For Law Man Many Need Neighbour Own Privately Superfluous Sure Think Unphilosphical
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Age Discovery Freedom Great Liberty Made Old Product Stress Youth
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Become Dictatorship Liberty License Near
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Less Memory Mother Penetrate Reasoning Seat Sooner Spank Take Time Tired
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Always Clever Good Nothing Often Say Thing
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Give Knowledge Only Philosophy Science Us Wisdom
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Basis Even Excess Government Perish Principle Tend
It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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All Country Enough Fool Large May People Rule Time True
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Adjust Code Condition Environment Moral Themselves

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