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“We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.”

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Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.”

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Book:Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder

Source: Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder

“There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.”

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Book:The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

“You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'”

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Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.”

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Author:Saint Basil

“Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge