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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
[ Fashion ]
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
[ Women ]
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
[ Society ]
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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
[ Patriotism ]
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
[ Potential ]
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Habit is stronger than reason.
[ Habit ]
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
[ Pain ]
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
[ Pride ]
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
[ Freedom ]
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
[ Conscience ]
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
[ Progress ]
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
[ Spirituality ]
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
[ History ]
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
[ Parents ]
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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
[ Reason ]
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
[ Cities ]
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