Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her the one requires knowledge, the other taste.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book Is it Aristotle Is it Pliny, is it Buffon No-it is Robinson Crusoe.
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