Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich


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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for se...
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
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