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"There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen."
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"Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice towards other vulnerable groups of people."
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"There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen."
Disparity


"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."
Books


"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
Generalization


"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
Power


"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."
Government


"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners."
Man


"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
Cure


"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
Ambition


"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
Land


"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."
Age
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