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• When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch…
• Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
• If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his…
• I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have…
• Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…
• The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes…
• When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much,…
• Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will…

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