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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
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The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.
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The best translation is not that which is most like the original but which is the most different from it.
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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
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The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.
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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
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