Alexander Hamilton:
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?

Mark Twain quotes

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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