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The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

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Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail...more

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The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

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Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James Goodfellow, when his careless son has happened to break a pane of glass? If you have b...more

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I can never look at these apparent contradictions between the great laws of nature without a feeling of physical uneasiness which amounts to suffering...more

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But things have been so admirably arranged by the Divine inventor of social order that in this, as in everything else, political economy and morality,...more

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Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, the...more

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There is in all of us a strong disposition to regard what is lawful as legitimate, so much so that many falsely derive all justice from law. It is suf...more