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- Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
- Nothing is new except arrangement.
- Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
- India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
- Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
- It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
- Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that…
- Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
- To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
- The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
- The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
- When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
- As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
- A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
- Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
- How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
- Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
- The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
- Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record,…
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