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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he…
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
— Honore de Balzac
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Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than…
— Joseph Addison
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow…
— John Aubrey
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep,…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride;…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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