"Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind"
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"Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in my life ... But the old-fellows say we must read to gain knowledge; and gain knowledge to make us happy and be admired. Mere jargon! Is there any such thing as happiness in this world? No."
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"The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in."
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"A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth."
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"Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you."
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"The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience."
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"Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep."
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"An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State."
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"Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy."
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"Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap."
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"If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation."
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"Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand."
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"My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers."
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"Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions."
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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... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest."
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"The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom."
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"I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point."
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"Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views."
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"With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions."
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"He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end."
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