Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
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1. Generality Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two....
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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