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• A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a… — James Madison
• The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to… — George Washington
• [In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole;… — James Madison
• [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . .… — Benjamin Franklin
• Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in… — Horatius Bonar
• In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants. — William H. Wharton
• What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits… — John Updike
• The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill
• There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe… — Seneca the Younger
• If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you… — Jane Austen

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