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• The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…
• The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
• To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of…
• Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
• All money is a matter of belief.
• Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
• It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but…
• The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,…

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