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They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

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David Hume

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Desire, Gain, Greed, Passion, Persons, Times
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No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own.

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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

Army, Glory, Government, Interest, Patriotism, Tyranny

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

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Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

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Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

Fatal, Founded, Fraud, Liberty, Thinking
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