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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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When we attend a funeral, we are apt to comfort ourselves with the happy difference there is betwixt us and our dead friend.
Maxims (1781) -
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
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Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
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Where ignorance is bliss, 't is folly to be wise.
Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College -
Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government;
Letter to Richard Price, 08-01-1789 -
Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.
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While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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