Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue to impose it with judgment and equality to employ it economically and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves
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You cannot plan the future by the past.
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