Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

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For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

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But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

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A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

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For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

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At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

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Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

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The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

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People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

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