To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it gets out of its way.
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood.
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