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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their…
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of…
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or…
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap…
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no…
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All money is a matter of belief.
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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file…
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols…
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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
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Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian…
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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
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I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty…
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O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not…
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The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never…
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one…
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