"Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question."
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"I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another."
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"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
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"The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish."
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"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."
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"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they."
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"He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities."
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"The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms."
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"In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society."
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"A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]"
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"Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people."
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"Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone."
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"By doing good we become good."
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"Girls must be thwarted early in life."
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"Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself"
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"The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply."
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"Living is not breathing but doing."
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"I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it."
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"The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least."
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"The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery."
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