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• We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and…
• The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is…
• I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
• My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
• No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
• To be awake is to be alive.
• When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
• Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
• As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could…
• If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution,…
• Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
• The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to…

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