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"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."
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"Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth."

"Susannah continued. 'If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan."

"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."

"I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world."

"Leisure is being allowed to do nothing."

"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."

"If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits."
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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."


"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."


"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."


"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."


"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
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