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I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the ot...more

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When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

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Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little ca...more