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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
War
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
Government
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
Home
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
Government
"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."
Danger
"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
Reading
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
Learning
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
Enemy
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
Home
"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."
Science
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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Personal Development
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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Personal Development
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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Personal Development
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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