"Whoever voluntarily undertakes the necessary office of rearing and educating, obtains the parental power without generation."

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“Whence this secret Chain between each Person and Mankind? How is my Interest connected with the most distant Parts of it?”

“All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate Powers of Perception internal or external, which we may call Senses … Reasoning or Intellect seems to raise no new Species of Ideas, but to discover or discern the Relations of those received.”

“That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions Misery.”

“Men have been Laughed out of Faults which a Sermon could not reform.”

“Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best Ends by the best Means.”

“The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency, he has a right thus to act.”

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