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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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