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Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.

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The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

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Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

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The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

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For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

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You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

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Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

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The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.

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Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

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