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"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
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"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

"We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer."
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"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"

"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."

"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."

"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."

"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."

"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."

"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
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