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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"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

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
Home

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
Government

"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

"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 executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
War

"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."
Danger

"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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