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"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."
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"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."
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"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
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"Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
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"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
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"You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world."
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"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
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"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."
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"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."
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"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
Love
"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."
Adventure
"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
Nature
"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God."
Humor
"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."
Money
"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
Nation
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
Economy
"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."
Nature
"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."
Public
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
Happiness
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