"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
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"To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.“
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"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."
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"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."
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"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."
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"I have a bit of a rebellious nature."
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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
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