The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

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The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

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It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

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The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

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Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

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