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- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a…
- Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.
- It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but…
- And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us…
- The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
- Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could…
- There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
- There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is…
- I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting…
- It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great…
- In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long…
- Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
- If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present…
- There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
- Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should…
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