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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good…
— Joseph Addison
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
— Lord Chesterfield
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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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You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence…
— George D. Prentice
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
— Michel de Montaigne
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Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
— Edward Abbey
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
— John Updike
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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent…
— Socrates
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