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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Again Become Cecome Every Hatred Just Only Respectable Vice Virtue Wartime
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Discovery Education Ignorance Our Own Progressive
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Give Knowledge Only Philosophy Science Us Wisdom
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
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
We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Best Century Event Inform Last Sixty
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Basis Even Excess Government Perish Principle Tend
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Begin Choas Civilization Die Grow Liberty Order
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Afford Cannot Moralist Stateman
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Become Free Law Man Recognize Subject
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Faster Him Learn Men Teach Woe
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Change Civilization Consent Exist Geological Notice Subject
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Become Desire Eye Knowledge Pilot Soul
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
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Art Begin End Every Science Philosophy
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Become Dictatorship Liberty License Near
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Continue Declaration Independence Make Nature never Read Unequal
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Always Clever Good History Lesson Nothing Often One Say Thing
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Fera Hope Mind Most People Rather Think Trouble

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