“A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.”
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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