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We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

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No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

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Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

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Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

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All promise outruns performance.

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Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

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