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All people are most credulous when they are most happy.


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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.



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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.



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Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.



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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.



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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.



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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.



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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.





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