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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

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Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

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No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it int...more

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The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is real...more

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, a...more