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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
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Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
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The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for…
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad…
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar…
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration…
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That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must…
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad…
— Isaac Barrow
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All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law…
— Murray Rothbard
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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
— Isabel Paterson
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History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth…
— Lysander Spooner
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Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed…
— Rowan Williams
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...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform…
— Patrick O'Brian
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The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or…
— Elizabeth I
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Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give…
— Dorothy Thompson
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