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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

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Fera Hope Mind Most People Rather Think Trouble
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Anarchy As Complete Die Liberty Soon
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Act Against Country Divide Machine Majority Minority Person Political United
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Begin Choas Civilization Die Grow Liberty Order
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Desert Expand Ignorance Knowledge Mirage Our Receding
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Dishonest Ill Other Ourselves Praise Speak Way
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Change Civilization Consent Exist Geological Notice Subject
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Afford Cannot Moralist Stateman
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Ago Discovery Education Everything Ignorance Knew Know Now Own Progressive Sixty Yera
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Civilization Family Nucleus One Liner
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Certainty Fatal Inquiry
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

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