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"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."
"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
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"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."
"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."
"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."
"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."
"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."
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