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"Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."
"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."
"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."
"Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest."
"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."
"Oppression is opposition."
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"Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together."
"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
"Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."
"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
"What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities."
"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."
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