"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."

People, Liberty, Will

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"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."

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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."

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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

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"Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

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"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."

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"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

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"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."

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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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