A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
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The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
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I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire -- thinner than the paper on which it is printed . . .
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The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails ... beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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