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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas P

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. – Thomas Paine

Other quotes by Thomas Paine

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. – Thomas Paine

Category:
Happiness
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Thomas Paine
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. – Thomas Paine

Category:
Death
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Thomas Paine
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. – Thomas Paine

Category:
Integrity
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Thomas Paine
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair

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Miscellaneous

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent. – Epictetus

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Miscellaneous

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – William James

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Miscellaneous

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any. – Cicero

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Miscellaneous

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People are ready to say, Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance. We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations. – Studs Terkel

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Presents, I often say, endear absents. – Charles Lamb

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