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• Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider…
• Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
• Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is…
• The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor…
• It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
• To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their…
• The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible…
• Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to…
• Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
• Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
• Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great…
• Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

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