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Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Happiness Pretty Feel Talk
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Law Infraction Liberty
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Reputation is the road to power
Reputation Road Power
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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Nature Mankind Pain Pleasure
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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains

Happiness Create Pleasure Pains
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We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

Courtesy Kindness Minds Happiness
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Power Lawyer Uncertainty Law
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Happiness Foundation Morals Legislation
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the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Rarest Human Qualities Consistency
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Power Government Believe Religion
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The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

Quantity Pleasure Good Poetry
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A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Society Animals Moral Ethical
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All poetry is misrepresentation.

Poetry Misrepresentation
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Right... is the child of law.

Right Child Law
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Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

Difficulties Wiser Nature God
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All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Government Trust Acknowledge
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There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Pestilence Zeal Religion Morality
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Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes

Law Time Humanity Mantle
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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Unkind Language Suffering Bosom
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Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Publicity Good Permanent Evil
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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil

Punishment Mischief Evil
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

Vain Interest Community Individual
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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

Lawyers Truth Win Case
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Secrecy Conspiracy System Government
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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Age Live Knowledge Perfection
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Truth Happiness Right Wrong
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Lawyers Persons Ignorance Law
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Dissent Form Patriotism
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The only thing cruelty does is add to the total amount of cruelty in the world.

Cruelty Add Amount World
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It’s overwhelming, it’s so beautiful just seeing the outpouring love from our community, our family, our friends. It’s just so beautiful. This has been the most hope I have ever seen in a season.

Beautiful Love Family Hope
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It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.

Policy Truth Good Liar
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Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.

Life Down Oven Baked
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Nature was beautiful, even in her tears

Nature Beautiful Tears
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There is no pathos in real misery, no luxury in real grief.

Real Misery Luxury Grief
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We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can’t do without.

We Think Things Without
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A boy's love comes from a full heart; a man's is more often the result of a full stomach.

Love Heart Man's Result
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It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want

Rule World Person Want
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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Idleness Kisses Sweet Stolen
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But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

Foretold Weather Enough Misery
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It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Pleasant People Stupid Love
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Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

Life Game Victory Skill
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Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Poor Trifle Known Sting
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Speak truth, and right will take care of itself.

Speak Truth Right Care
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Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug

Play Game Life Winnings
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It is in the petty details, not in the great results, that the interest of existence lies.

Petty Details Results Existence
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Affection will burn cheerily when the white flame of love is flickered out. Affection is a fire that can be fed from day to day and be piled up ever higher as the wintry years draw nigh.

Affection Burn Flame Love
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Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Broken Relationships Heartbreak Family
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I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

See Success Goal Obedience
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I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

Books Celebrities Fame People
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You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

You Understand Someone's Going
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