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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of…
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,…
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair…
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That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like…
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as…
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the…
— Charles Churchill
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These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with…
— Stephen Crane
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If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse
— Bob Arum
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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
— John Stuart Mill
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The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of…
— Franz Liszt
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When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
— Margaret Turnbull
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A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.
— George R. R. Martin
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
— Benjamin Franklin
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So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?" "Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
— Thomas More
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The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.
— Irish Proverb
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