"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
-Edward Gibbon
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"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.“
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
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"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
-Edward Gibbon
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
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"More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way."
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