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May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

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Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world

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Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.

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God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

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