Those who bear equally the burdens of government should equally participate in the benefits.
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Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do it a second and third time till at length it becomes habitual.
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A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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