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The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language…

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Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase…
No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early…
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy…
The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty…
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of…

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