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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
[ Manners ]
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A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
[ Health ]
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinessÂ…
[ Equality ]
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
[ Debt ]
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Never spend your money before you have earned it.
[ Economy ]
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
[ Ignorance ]
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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
[ Speech ]
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
[ Victory ]
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
[ Pain ]
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Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
[ Pride ]
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
[ Freedom ]
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
[ Freedom ]
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
[ Freedom ]
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
[ Freedom ]
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
[ Freedom ]
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Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
[ Control ]
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
[ Luck ]
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
[ Luck ]
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How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
[ Worry ]
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