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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Illness strike Men Exposed Change
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

Never Yet feared Men Cheat
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Planned badly Fortune Stroke Luck
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

Look End Everything God
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

Whatever come God Impossible Turn back
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But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Like Great success Jealous The gods
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

God Suffer presumption Anyone
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Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Men's fortune Wheel Turning suffers Prosper forever
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
Remember Clothes Woman Puts off
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Civil strife Greater evil War itself Worse
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

One thing Alone Many ways Freedom
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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Death Delightful Hiding place
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The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

Ears Men Lesser agents Belief
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The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Destiny Man Own soul
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All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Men's gain Fruit Venturing
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

Put Proposition Men After examination
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Most hateful Human misfortune Wise man Influence
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Best man Plans Fears Reflects
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When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

Woman Removes Garment Respect
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Knowledge Give weight Accomplishment People
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It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Impossible Someone Human
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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Only good Knowledge Evil Ignorance
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In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

In peace Sons Bury War
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

All possessions Friend Most precious
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
Alive Done Feel Gets
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The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Chest Heart His Man
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I was completely nuts for most of my life.

Life Most Nuts
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I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

Any Consider Good Judge
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It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

About Fat Just Okay
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

Bed Before Birth Control
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Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

Divorce Last Marriage Seriously
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I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

Came Comic Here Laugh
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The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

Any Better Fact Get
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

All Things Democracy Mediocrity Tendency
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Belongs Both Breeding Candor
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Abuse Ambition American Common
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

Becomes Child Citizen Controlling
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Accord Borne Engine Excellent
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Corrupt Defeating Leads Legislation
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

America Colonies Different Establishing
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Democracy Exhibit Form Law
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

Another Better Christian Coat
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

Active Cannot Costly Depends
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Action Aim Being Citizen
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

Bear Close Each Ever
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

All-Around Any Around Character
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Abstain Accumulate Add Aid
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Another Boldly Ends Feeling
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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

Appreciated Effects Exceptions General
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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Active Bosom Civilized Civilized Society
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