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"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."
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"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
Nation
"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."
Money
"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."
Fear
"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
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"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."
Society
"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."
Happiness
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
Science
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
Uncertainty
"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
Science
"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money."
Money
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