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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.



No passion so effectually robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.



The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.



“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”



Good order is the foundation of all good things.



The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.



By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.



Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever



Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, [including] the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions



To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.



Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart



Education is the cheap defense of nations



Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.



It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.



The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity








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