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" The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. "

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" There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. "

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" I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. "

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" The discipline of desire is the background of character. "

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" One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. "

" Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. "

" We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. "

" It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. "

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" As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. "

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" I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. "

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" All wealth is the product of labor. "

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" Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. "