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"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."
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"It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it."
"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect."
"If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble."
"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."
"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery."
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
"Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried."
"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."
"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
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