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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Idealism Fine Reality Costs
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

Best Defense Government Citizenry
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I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Believe Takes Practic Moral
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Democracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom.

Democracy Dictatorship Government Power
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The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

Complicated Powerful Job Preparation
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Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

Truth Lady People Want
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Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

Decent people Ignore Politics Confident
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There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Inverse Relationship Reliance State
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I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

Satsfaction Creating Paid Feeling
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Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

Government Anything You Something
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History is but the polemics of the victor.

History Polemics Victor
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

Life Frown Smile Greeting
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

Revenge Wicked Natural
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Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Good humor Articles Wear Society
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Mother God Hearts Children
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.

People Hate Love Unreasonably
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

Thoughts Man Know Write
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In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Word Adversity Comforters Friends
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to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.

Skilful Duties Woman's Qualities
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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob

You Judge Snobs Shows
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Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

Cheerfulness Spirit Heart Charity
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

World Gives back Man Reflection
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Money Different Value Eyes
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The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

Powers Good Author Make
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It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

Ordinary People Friends Care
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I would rather make my name then inherit it.

I Make Name Inherit
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A good laugh is sunshine in a house
Good Laugh Sunshine House
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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

Little Life Nothing History
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It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all

Love Doubt Foolishly Better
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Whatever you are, be a good one.

Whatever You Good
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Succeed Live Goal You
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Man Life Dare Succeed
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Hope Real Reality Deceit
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Prayer Man Know Himself
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Little Mankind Governed Wisdom
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Happiest People Cause Happy
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Faith Belief Reality Values
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

Christian Pessimist System Optimism
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Literature Best Trade Art
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Worry Interest Paid Trouble
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The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
Aim Education Knowledge Values
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Rewards Punishments Consequences
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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

Time Influence Character Child
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The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Soul Dyed Color Leisure thoughts
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To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

Marry Get View Life
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Wisdom Wise Degree Common sense
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Wise man Knows Value Things
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Feast Life Paying Share
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

Object Philosophy Mind People's
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Good government Human Blessings Nation
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