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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
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''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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