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- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only…
- You cannot make a cheap palace.
- There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
- Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
- Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
- Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
- If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than…
- O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
- Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the…
- I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young…
- Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
- Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
- In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are…
- The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.
- We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
- The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
- Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and…
- Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.
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