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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in…
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Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A…
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I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you…
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And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs
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You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge…
— George Eliot
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I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.
— Carol Vorderman
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There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of…
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,…
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How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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