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"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."

"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."

"A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners."

"I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that."
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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"

"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."

"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."

"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."
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